Motor truck lime spreader



y 7, 1940. E. M. FULKERSON ET AL 2.200.165

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REISSUED i Elmer M. Fulkerson and Jesse C. Fulkerson,

Sonora, Ky.

Application December 1, 1988, Serial No. 243,469

2 Claims. (01. 275-8) UNITED STAT" This invention relates to a spreader and it particularly aims to provide a novel structure adapted to be carried by. a truck and operated from its propelling motor, and especially such a spreader chassis Ill. Such means consist of side beams 24 which are rigidly attached to the hopper H and removably rest on the side beams l0, being fastened thereto in any suitable manner as by means as maybe used in connection with lime, marl of U-bolts or clamps as at 25. A plate 28 is and other fertilizer or material. fastened to the under surface of those portions More specific objects and advantages will beof beams 24 which project to the rear of the come apparent from a consideration of the dehopper I I, and a discharge opening. is provided scription followingtaken in connection with the at 21 in such plate so that material fed by the m accompanying drawings illustrating an operative screw I 4 will fall through the opening 21, since embodiment. it will abut and can not travel past the wall or In said drawings: partition l6 previously referred to. Figure 1 is a plan view, partly broken away, A pan or the like 28 is suspended below the illustrating our improvements; beams 24 and connected to the portions thereof Figure 2 is a rear elevation thereof partly in the rear of the hopper. Mounted on the pan 15 broken away; and disposed centrally thereof directly beneath Figure 3.is a vertical sectional view taken on the opening 21, is a divider 29, serving to divide the plane of line 3-3 of Figure 1; the material reaching the same and guide it to Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional view taken a pair of spreaders 30. Such spreaders 38 are on the plane of line H of Figure 2; and located within the pan 28. A vertical wall 3| surm Figure 5 is a horizontal sectional view taken rounds the pan at the sides and front and the on the plane of line 8-5 of Figure 4. pan on opposite sides of the divider 28 extends Referring specifically to the drawings wherein forwardly slightly beyond the divider as best like reference characters designate like or similar shown in Figures 4 and,5. The former figure as parts, the invention is applied to a self-propelled showing the divider in central longitudinal sectruck body in which the side beams of the chastion. Said pan 28 is open at the rear in event sis are shown as at l0. Mounted in any suitable the spreaders may discharge or broadcast the manner on said side beamls or otherwise on the material. Such spreaders are rotatable and preftruck, is a hopper 'H adapted to contain the erably have flights 32 thereon to facilitate en-. so lime, marl or other material to be distributed. gagement with and discharge of the material. 0 As best shown in Figure 3, the hopper has in- Such spreaders are generally in the form of clined side walls as at I2 converging at a central round rotatable plates or disks and they have bottom trough l3 in which a screw conveyor I 4 depending shafts 33 iournaled in the bottom wall is operatively disposed in order to move the'lime of the pan 28. At the lower ends of the shafts or other material to the rear of the truck hopper 33, gear wheels 34 are keyed which are enmeshed 35 ll for discharge thereof. The conveyor H has with bevelled gear wheels 34 keyed to a transverse a shaft I! journaled in the front end wall of shaft 35 journaled in suitable bearings 38 dependthe hopper and in the vertical wall l8 extending ing from the pan 28. Hoods or guards 31 setransversely and carried by a spreader structure cured to the pan are. used to protect the gearing 40 generally designated l1 vand located at the res. 33 and 34 against the material be g discharged. 40 of the hopper. J Parallel with shaft35 and. journ led in the up- The conveyor l4 and other parts are preferably per portion of the aforesaid bearings 38, is a driven from the propellingmotor of the truck, the. shaft 38, the same also passing through the rear same or transmission bein Suggested at l havportions of the beams 24. Shaft 38has abevelled a in: a po er k i shaft l9 e i th from gear wheel as keyed thereto and enmeshed with and including a Suitable change speed gear mecha bevelled gear wheel 40 located at the rear end mm as at 20. Said s ft t the rear of of the shaft l5. Bevelled gear wheels at 4| and the change speed mechanism or box 28 has a 42, are respectively keyed to the shafts 38 and sprocket wheel 2! keyed thereto over which a 35 and a sprocket chain l3 traverses the same so sprocket chain 22 is trained and which is also as to operate the spreaders from the shaft is. trained over a sprocket wheel 23 keyed to the It will be realized that the device is driven by keyed shaft ll. the operating motor or mechanism of the truck Reverting to the spreader mechanism II, it is and the same in effect forms aunit which may be preferably built onto. and carried by the beams applied to the chassis of the truck, the driving as used to secure the hopper ll removably to the mechanism and power take-on being detachably I6 connected in any suitable way Zrom a propeller shaft or other shaft of the motor of the truck.

Various changes may be resorted to provided they fall within the spirit and scope oi the invention.

We claim as our invention:

1. A device of the class described comprising a hopper having attaching beams, a conveyor in said hopper, means to drive the conveyor, said beams having portions extending rearwardiy be-- yond the hopper, a plate secured to said portions having an opening through which the conveyor discharges material, a pan secured to said por-' tions to receive said material, an abutment partition secured to said portions at the rear of said opening constituting a bearing for theconveyor, spreader means on said pan, means to drive the spreader means operatively connected to the conveyor at the rear of said partition comprising parallel shafts, means gearing the shafts together, means to drive the spreader means from one of the shafts, and means at the sides of the pan extending above and below it and serving as bearings for both of said parallel shafts.

aaoaios 2. A device of the class described comprising a hopper having attaching beams, a. conveyor in said hopper, means to drive the conveyor, said beams having portions extending rearwardly beyond the hopper, a plate secured to said portions having an opening through which the conveyor discharges material, a pan secured to said portions to receive said material, an abutment partition secured to said portions at the rear of said opening constituting a bearing for the conveyor, spreader means on said pan, means to drive the spreader means operatively connected to the conguards for said gearing, and a divider for the material disposed below the said opening and in 20 said pan.

ELMER M. RSON. JESSE C. ON. 

